Euro rises to $1.50, a 14-month high vs. dollar

DeborahLevine

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The euro rose to a 14-month high of $1.50 versus the dollar on Wednesday as rising equities encouraged enough risk appetite to push the shared currency to the highest since last August. The euro then eased back to trade at $1.4991, compared to $1.4931 on Tuesday. The dollar index
DXY, +0.47%
a measure of the greenback against a trade-weighted basket of currencies, fell to 75.221, down from 75.556 in North American activity late Tuesday. (Correction: a previous version of this story gave the incorrect number of months since the euro stood above $1.50 versus the U.S. dollar).

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